Adrian Schug
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The Part of You Life Cannot Break
LIFE ON URTH - Episode 116 First, Some Important Housekeeping 🧹 I have been using Substack for a while, alongside this regular newsletter, and will soon fully migrate there. If you want to keep receiving the newsletter, just click the link below, and I will add you to my Substack list. Nothing changes for you, the weekly emails will keep coming :) I want to keep receiving the newsletter You can also find me on Substack and manually subscribe there. I post not only the weekly newsletter but...
The Adventure You’re Avoiding
LIFE ON URTH - Episode 115 You are a pattern that moves across a spectrum ranging from heroic to villainous. It’s important to realize that there is no escaping this. The way you meet the world in each moment is a move either towards the heroic pole or towards the villainous. It’s easy to see that doom-scrolling on the couch isn’t heroic. But how is it villainous? Isn’t that too strong a term? Let’s first decipher what it means to be the hero, then it’ll become clear why wasting your time...
You're The Chosen One
LIFE ON URTH - Episode 114 By default, you experience yourself as the center of a roughly dome-shaped bright circumstance. There you are, apparently looking out at the world through your eyes. Before you, a landscape of objects like trees, laptops and chairs unfolds, effortlessly. You can talk about them with other people because they can see them, too. This conversation about things has become so detailed that we can predict and manipulate their behavior to a great degree, allowing for all...
It's All In Your Mind 🗡️
LIFE ON URTH - Episode 113 I keep saying that your mind is all you have, but I don’t think people understand how literally I mean that. So let’s turn it around for a moment to emphasize this central idea: there is nothing else but your mind. You see, hear and taste your mind. There is no other place for vision, hearing and taste to appear. The only interface with reality is your experience. And let’s be honest, we’re barely even in touch with that. Our attentional abilities are at an all-time...
Where Is The Treeness? 🍂
LIFE ON URTH - Episode 112 The World You Inhabit You don’t live in the physical world. At least not directly. You live in an experience of the world. Colors, sounds, warmth, meaning, memories, hopes, fears—everything appears within consciousness. Whatever the universe is made of beyond that is fascinating, but it isn’t the world you wake up in each morning. Modern science has been zooming in hard, revealing that beneath our familiar world of tables and people lies a soup of vibrating fields....
Focus On The Mundane đź©´
LIFE ON URTH - Episode 111 The Realm I’m currently working on a project called The Realm, an interactive website to lay out and play with my personal mythology. It currently consists of six areas, the third of which just got unveiled: Explore The Theatre Of Perception A Narrated Documentary What is the world without you, the observer? There is probably something, right? A matrix of vibrations, some of which we can measure, describe, and predict. A bubbly reality soup, before a tiny slice of...
The White Wall ◻️
LIFE ON URTH - Episode 110 The Theatre Of Perception I’m currently working on a project called The Realm, an interactive website to lay out and play with my personal mythology. It currently consists of six areas, two of which opened their gates in the last weeks: The Ocean of Being explores the original state of consciousness, pure and borderless. It’s the origin and destination of everything. The Thought Forge hints at the process of creating something from everything. It’s where potential...
The Thought Forge 🔨
LIFE ON URTH - Episode 109 I Am, Therefore I Am Thoughts are at the center of the human experience. “I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum) is René Descartes’ famous conclusion to the mystery of existence. While it isn’t very useful without context (you could as well say “I am, therefore I am”), it is one of the most popular philosophical quotes. It sticks because we all know how important thoughts are. Thoughts are interpretations of the world, of other people, and most importantly of...
The Ocean of Being 🌅
LIFE ON URTH - Episode 108 My main notion of the world in a nutshell: Consciousness allows us to compress infinite complexity (the quantum soup around you) into something navigable (a room with furniture). We do not experience raw reality, but an abstraction on a useful scale. It’s built to guide our actions - by evolution, the greatest designer of the world. Here are some fun features: The world appears to us not just as a place of things, but as an arena of action with a narrative structure...
The Invisible Crowd 🏙️
LIFE ON URTH - Episode 107 Imagine you're walking through a university campus. A tourist approaches you and asks for directions. You want to help, but your answer gets interrupted by two guys carrying a door, briefly obstructing your view of the stranger. As you attempt to continue the explanation, you suddenly notice it's a different tourist you're talking to! Or maybe you wouldn't realize the switch at all. In an experiment about "change blindness," researchers Daniel Simons and Daniel...
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